Recovery Quotes

Recovery Quote of the day

The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up--but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us.

You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.

Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself—something you cannot prove for certain.

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.

They sought the pain they knew so well and called it love.

I’m not bilingual, but I am fluent in therapists’ jargon.

If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.

You are the writer, producer, and director of your own mind programs.

Now I’msober and Irealize, Ididn’t drink toescape the world, I drank to escapemyself

There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it.

Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest of my life, become just a part of the story that I've always been writing?

You’re going to make something wonderful of yourself. I promise.You’re doing just fine.

I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

I want to just go back to being the person I was before, but you can't stop being the person you've become. You just have to keep going forward.

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.

if you are always drinking, you should probably never drive

When we observe the flow of our breathing, we transcend our thoughts and are able to bring mind and body into harmony with each other. Thus, we create calm.

That’s the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.

Healing hurt.

Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed.

Why lie, Robert? Why lie? You know that lying is the alcoholics kryptonite, you can’t afford it, the reasonable voice in his head screamed.

There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was a grey corridor lined with doors, it was now within my power to open some of them.

See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on--through acceptance.

Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived through a tragedy knows, life does, rather infuriatingly, go on.

The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

There are two ways of thinking. One is living life based on fear. The other is trusting. Letting go and allowing trust to control our lives takes mental gymnastics.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.

Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.

We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to them, how we deal with them, and how we move on.

Everything was so broken, but it would heal. Saxonia will heal. Hollownot will heal. Everything will heal.I was broken. I will heal.It is certainty that destroys the souls of men.

Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it.

This madman must be stopped.

Perhaps that’s the best way to recover, to return to the way things were before as quickly as we can. We won the Great Battle, so nothing needs to change.

I am made of a thousand ghosts, only you can shoot me down.

There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles, of neighbors and kin, till time and error and accident were undone, and the world became comprehensible and whole.

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

Life is too short to have debts and doubts, Pay the bills, no regrets, be up and about.

What this world needs now… more balloons and clowns

Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the impact, can't smell the blood.

One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.

Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.

We're saying the story doesn't end here, that the air in your lungs is there for a reason.

The more judgmental a person is the sadder they are.

Without struggle there is no progress.